In the miraculous year of 1840, which Schumann began in despair, forcibly separated from Clara by her father, he composed nearly 150 Lieder. Including the two outstanding cycles presented here, based respectively on poems by the great Heine (the 'Liederkreis, Op. 24') and by Justinus Kerner (the twelve 'Kernerlieder, Op. 35'). In the hands of two such outstanding artists as Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes these two masterpieces invite us, performers and listeners alike, to share a state of transcendence, a heightened consciousness that transports us directly to the heart of lived experience itself.
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